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ESASky is a science-driven discovery portal to explore the multi-wavelength sky and visualise and access multiple astronomical archive holdings. The tool is a web application that requires no prior knowledge of any of the missions involved…

The article provides a brief description of the software package DECH for processing and analysis of astronomical spectra. DECH supports all stages of processing and analysis of spectral data, including image preprocessing, spectra…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 G. A. Galazutdinov

We have produced a new software package for the simulation of pulsar populations, \textsc{PsrPopPy}, based on the \textsc{Psrpop} package. The codebase has been re-written in Python (save for some external libraries, which remain in their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sam Bates , Duncan Lorimer , Akshaya Rane , Joe Swiggum

This paper defines the mathematical convention adopted to describe an electromagnetic wave and its polarisation state, as implemented in the PSRCHIVE software and represented in the PSRFITS definition. Contrast is made between the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-07 W. van Straten , R. N. Manchester , S. Johnston , J. Reynolds

Pulsars are natural cosmic clocks. On long timescales they rival the precision of terrestrial atomic clocks. Using a technique called pulsar timing, the exact measurement of pulse arrival times allows a number of applications, ranging from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Werner Becker , Michael Kramer , Alberto Sesana

This is a companion Focus Demonstration article to the PyMUSE python package, demonstrating its usage and utilities for VLT/MUSE data analysis, that include a wide range of options for spectra extractions, the creation of different types of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-20 Ismael Pessa , Nicolas Tejos , Cristobal Moya

We describe a computer application designed to analyze hyperspectral data collected by the Compact Infrared Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM). The application links the spectral, imaging and mapping perspectives on the eventual CRISM dataset by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-29 Adrian J. Brown , Michael Storrie-Lombardi

Instrument simulators are becoming ever more useful for planning and analysing large astronomy survey data. In this paper we present a simulator for the Herschel-SPIRE photometer. We describe the models it uses and the form of the input and…

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Most periodicity search algorithms used in pulsar astronomy today are highly efficient and take advantage of multiple CPUs or GPUs. The bottlenecks are usually represented by the operations that require an informed choice from an expert…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-24 Matteo Bachetti , Maura Pilia , Stefano Curatti , Giada Corrias , Andrea Addis , Claudia Macciò , Daniele Muntoni , Viviana Piga , Nicolò Pitzalis , Alessio Trois

Pulsars have traditionally been used for research into fundamental physics and astronomy. In this paper, we investigate the expanding applications of radio pulsars in societal and industrial domains beyond their conventional scientific…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 D. Kaur , G. Hobbs , A. Zic , J. R. Dawson , J. Morgan , W. Ling , S. Camtepe , J. Pieprzyk , M. C. M. Cheung

The increasing number and complexity of planetary exploration space missions require new tools to access, visualize and analyse data to improve their scientific return. ASI Science Data Center (ASDC) addresses this request with the web-tool…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-18 Angelo Zinzi , Maria Teresa Capria , Ernesto Palomba , Paolo Giommi , Lucio Angelo Antonelli

This paper contains details on the algorithms implemented in the TEMPO2 pulsar timing software package and describes how the software is used. Information is given on how to download and install the software, use the various interfaces,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-30 G. Hobbs

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PESummary is a Python software package for processing and visualising data from any parameter estimation code. The easy to use Python executable scripts and extensive online documentation has resulted in PESummary becoming a key component…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-12 Charlie Hoy , Vivien Raymond

Brahe is a modern satellite dynamics library for research and engineering applications. The representation and prediction of satellite motion is the fundamental problem of astrodynamics. Current research and applications in space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Duncan Eddy , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Cyclic spectral analysis is a signal processing technique designed to deal with stochastic signals whose statistics vary periodically with time. Pulsar radio emission is a textbook example of this signal class, known as cyclostationary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Paul Demorest

ConsumerCheck is an open source data analysis software tailored for analysis of sensory and consumer data. Since some of the implemented methods are generic, such as PCA, PLSR and PCR, other data from other domains may also be analysed with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Oliver Tomic , Alexandra Kuznetsova , Per Bruun Brockhoff , Thomas Graff , Tormod Næs

SpectraPy is an Astropy affiliated package for spectroscopic data reduction. It collects algorithms and methods for data reduction of astronomical spectra obtained by through-slits spectrographs. It has been created to fill the gap in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-10 Marco Fumana

Pulsars provide a wealth of information about General Relativity, the equation of state of superdense matter, relativistic particle acceleration in high magnetic fields, the Galaxy's interstellar medium and magnetic field, stellar and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 D. R. Lorimer , M. A. McLaughlin

Pulsar timing is a powerful tool that, by accounting for every rotation of a pulsar, precisely measures the spin frequency, spin frequency derivatives, astrometric position, binary parameters when applicable, properties of the ISM, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-05 Jackson Taylor , Scott Ransom , Prajwal V. Padmanabh